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--- using_alexa_skills_kit [2016/12/31 14:02] – tbrodeur
+++ using_alexa_skills_kit [2017/05/30 16:42] (current) – tbrodeur
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-<fc #008000><fs x-large>Creating the Skill with Amazon Skills Kit</fs></fc>
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 <fs large>**Linking with the Lambda Function**</fs>
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+-Also make sure to change the application id in your lambda function that handles the event to the id code listed under your skill name:
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+<fs large>**Testing**</fs>
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+The Custom Skill can be tested using the Service Simulator within the Amazon Developer portal and without the need to use an Echo hardware device. We can type in sample sentences that the user might speak, view the JSON message that is sent to the Lambda function and its response JSON as well as listen to how the response would sound when played back on an Echo.
+Here we can see that Alexa determined that this request related to the “Hello” intent (because we used a phrase from our sample utterances that are associated with that intent).
+The Lambda function read “Hello” as the intent and called the say_hello Python function that we wrote.
+If an Echo device is associated with our Amazon developer account, we can go ahead and directly test this with that device. If not, we can hear what the response would sound like simply by pressing the “Listen” button in the Service Simulator.
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+<fs large>**Next Steps**</fs>
+-If you are following the "Hello World" tutorial, you are now finished.
+-Using this base knowledge, go on to create custom skills such as a [[echo_stock_price|stock price skill]].